Benefits demise inquest: Jodey Whiting’s mum to ‘battle for others’

A campaigning mom has promised to battle for different households after a coroner discovered her disabled daughter took her personal lifestyles when her advantages have been wrongly stopped.

Housebound Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton, died in February 2017 days after her incapacity advantages have been halted by way of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

For 8 years her mom Joy Dove fought for a 2nd inquest after the primary listening to dominated suicide, however did not take into accout the function the DWP choice performed within the demise.

Ms Dove stated even if the marketing campaign’s luck would no longer carry Jodey again, she was once extremely joyful the coroner had recorded “the truth” and he or she would “fight for other families” in a identical place.

Ms Dove informed BBC Radio Tees: “It’s hard to take in, I’m shocked but delighted and happy the coroner recorded that Jodey took her own life because her benefits were stopped.

“It may not carry Jodey again and it was once laborious to return to the similar court docket the place it began.

“The fight for Jodey has been concluded, but I will always try to help other families going through something similar and they can always get in touch.”

She stated the marketing campaign had taken its toll on her well being and he or she have been hospitalised with hypertension and suffered migraines.

“I’ve been online this morning and have read hundreds of messages from people saying ‘well done’, but I now need a long rest,” Ms Dove stated.

On Monday the senior coroner for Teesside, Clare Bailey, recorded a verdict of suicide because of a “deteriorating mental state” brought on by way of the Department for Work and Pensions’ choice.

Two weeks ahead of her demise Ms Whiting have been deemed have compatibility to paintings, having neglected an review as a result of she was once in medical institution with pneumonia.

The DWP stated it was once “deeply regretful” after the inquest heard Ms Whiting “had lost hope” on the time of her demise.

Extracts from notes Ms Whiting left for members of the family have been learn on the listening to and printed she may no longer pay her expenses and had no meals.

An preliminary inquest in May 2017 recorded a verdict of suicide however didn’t believe the movements of the DWP in preventing her advantages.

Ms Dove fought a protracted prison struggle for the second one listening to, taking it the entire strategy to the Court of Appeal.

She stated: “The consultant psychiatrist went right through Jodey’s life and read all the reports and I’m pleased he agreed that what the DWP did was the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

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